Standard Colors for Less Common Denominations (1 Viewer)

[BGinGA]

If you are really goi by to be doing tournaments a couple of times per year and play a 1/2 cash regularly just play a T1 base tournament.

Starting 1/2 blings with a 400 starting stack 200 times the starting big blind

10x1
8x5
6x25
2x100

Don’t even need a 500 could just color up with 25s and 100s if you want.

Then save your money and buy a separate tournament set

^This. Very few 500 plaques would be needed (if at all), and a T20 will work fine for a T1-base tourney set.

Or if you want/need 20s for game and cash play, get both 20s for board games/cash and get T25s for tourney play (and don't use the 100s for cash). That will drnatically improve tournament play (if using T5 base), while also helping protect and separate the two sets by not sharing the higher denomination chips.

 

[Mysticum]

Sure, makes sense, not a bad idea. Thought I just play with friends, so I'm not concerned at all with any cheats/mistakes in that regard.

But for a T5 based tournament, would you recommend just going with 5/2X/100/500/(1000) then?

 

[wolfpack]

For T5 base you can do a 2k starting stack

10x5
10x25
7x100
2x500

Color up with 100 and 500 you don’t have to have 1k but can throw in a barrel if you want for late game color up

 

[BGinGA]

T1-base structure, T600 stacks (150BB)
2/4
3/6
4/8
6/12
8/16
remove T1 chips
10/20
15/30
20/40
30/60
40/80
remove T5 chips
>>If using T25s:
50/100
75/150
100/200
150/300 **eot**
200/400
>>OR if using T20s:
60/120
80/160
100/200
160/320 **eot**
200/400

T25s stacks: 10/8/6/4, using T25/T100 for color-up
T20s stacks: 10/10/7/4, using T20/T100 for color-up

 

[Taghkanic]

If a set looks good, and the colors/spots are distinct, anything goes AFAIC. The one thing I would avoid is swapping “standard” colors around, to the extent that your players are familiar with your regional standards.

For example, if a New York casino introduced green $5s and red $25s, there would probably be a lot of mistakes by regs, at least until they got used to these colors being the opposite of what is expected. One-time visitors to that room would be the bigger problem.

But if a casino used pink $5s and aquamarine $25s, one would expect less havoc as a result of expectations.

 

[CrazyEddie]

I don't have any recommendations for chip breakdowns or tournament schedules. I do, though, recommend you not give to much thought to what "standard" chip colors are. You seem to have a pretty strong idea in mind for a theme and design; I would follow that design idea wherever it leads you. If the chips end up being unusual colors, well, so much the better then! Just make sure the denominations are prominently displayed and easily readable; they don't have to be readable from across the table, just when they're right there in your own stack. Your players will easily learn what each color is, and they never have to memorize it - they can just look at the chip!

I think both you and your players will appreciate the attractiveness of the chips if they have a well-executed design that fits your chosen theme, and will pay little regard to the specific colors assigned to different chips.

 

[riotouslevity]

Regardless of the denom progression, I recommend keeping the cyclic color progression:

Light
Warm
Cool
Dark
Cool
Warm
Light

Because it balances harmony and distinction as you move up and down the denoms

Note: Doesn't have to start at light, but the progression should follow the order.